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How To Draw Birds – 5 Tips For Better Bird Drawings

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Study Bird Anatomy If you want to draw a convincing bird, you need to understand what lies beneath the surface. When you draw something, you simplify it, and without knowing what you see, you can’t simplify it.Your drawings will become much better when they’re based on knowledge and not just on how something appears to … Read more

A Free Online Sketchbook Workshop: Sketchbook Revival

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I’m happy to announce that I’ll be part of an inspiring online workshop series coming up later this month. The event is called Sketchbook Revival (hosted by the wonderful Karen Abend), it’ll be running between April 22 through May 4 2019, and the best part about it is that it’s FREE! The sessions will be … Read more

My Sketchbook In March 2019

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It’s time for reflecting another month of nature journaling. March is the time of the year around here where you can feel that nature is awakening slowly from its winter hibernation. The first few leaves and blossoms are coming out, and the birds are getting active with courtship, mating and nest building. For me, March … Read more

My Sketchbook in February 2019

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February was another month where I focused on drawing birds, there’s not much happening here aside from that and the last breaths of winter. We ventured out for a few small trips however, one of them to the Hoher Meißner region south of where we live, and this was a very inspiring day for me. … Read more

How To Get Started With A New Sketchbook

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Do you want to know a secret? I used to be afraid of sketchbooks. I was a perfectionist, and was afraid of making mistakes in my sketchbook, which would of course be ruined by a bad drawing. I preferred to work on loose paper. I’m sure many of you know this feeling..it keeps us from … Read more

Common European Birds – An Ongoing Painting Project

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One thing I’ve been working more on in the last few months is drawing and painting birds. I always felt strangely fascinated by birds, and in recent months I have started to paint them. I was particularly interested in what species are common and rare here in Germany (and in Europe), so that was the main focus of my research before starting to paint.

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My Sketchbook in January 2019

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It’s time for my monthly sketchbook review. January has been a relatively quiet time for me with lots of work done from home, or close to home. Winter is here and it has simply been too cold to spend a lot of time drawing outside. But I went on a few beautiful hikes when collecting … Read more

Drawing Ideas For The Winter Months

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Starting or keeping a nature journal in the winter months may seem counterintuitive, because when you look outside it seems there’s not much there. There is happening less outside and that can be less distracting, and when you focus, you can notice that there still is quite a lot worth observing and journaling about. Winter … Read more